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The current board of the Village of Oak Park has chosen to support the ridiculous expenditures being drained from the tax roles to support an ill suited software package that was designed for a much larger metropolitan base of operations, and not a Village.  This continuation of a bad idea is obsurd, costly, and has led to deceptive practices in terms of payments.  Payments which called for a special task force to examine the $25,000 checks being written to support this
bad choice month after month. It was concluded that nothing
illegal had been done, but the fact that nothing illegal was believed to have been done does not justify the stupidity
of the action taken.  The Village is currently spending tax payer's money to lobby for the covering of the expressway
in Oak Park, at the same time that it lays off one of the only female building inspectors - when she is needed most. 

The Village Board has just cut around a million dollars from
the budget that would have helped to pay for street repairs.
The streets that are being used by residents on their bicycles, in an attempt to conserve gasoline use and head toward a
greener Oak Park are being insulted with the inaction of
repair - it's not easy riding a bike with potholes that could ruin
your wheels or change your sex.   However  we do spend
millions on developers who are given those funds to build in Oak Park.  Perhaps if the developers don't have the funds or the interest in Oak Park we could do without them (we don't need more traffic on Lake street). 

The growing list of properties in Oak Park that have been vacant for a time without any income helping the Village increases month to month.  The entire south-east corner of Oak Park Ave and South Blvd is one, the north-west corner of Forest and Lake Street is another,  the vacant lots and properties owned by the Village for years doing nothing
but looking desolate - they could be better suited like the north-east corner of Madison and Oak Park avenue - but it just sits-instead of being a grass field it remains flat concrete. 
The Village board needs a change.

We endorse.
Village of Oak Park
Oak Park Village President

 It Takes A Village
Gary Schwab
Gary Schwab's posted election views, David Pope
failed to provide his to the voters.

 Village of Oak Park
Oak Park Village Trustees
Kathryn Jonas
Julie Samuels
John Franklin

Village of Oak Park
Oak Park Village Clerk
Sharon Patchak-Layman

The current board of Oak Park Park’s has done more to damage Oak Park Parks than a group of pillaging marauders bent on destruction of all that is beautiful.  This is not to say that they have made every effort to appear to take citizen input seriously.  We attended numerous meetings for the
development of Mills Park and were told with other reports from other papers in town that a large tent structure attachment proposed for Mills Park was being donated to the parks.  This term "donated" was heard meeting after meeting
and when we asked who was donating this tent we found that it was by a company that would get an exclusive contract to host events at the Mills home.  This is not a donation, but rather an investment.  Was this deception, ignorance, or
more stupidity.  It is time for a change here too....


The board and administration has spent perhaps as much as $100,000.00 pursuing the criminal trespass of one of our citizens, a man who in his heart of hearts has never had anything but the best of intentions for his community and our children.  In court this man admitted to the judge that he was warned by a member of the park’s administration not to come into the park, this man also admitted to having gone
a few feet into the park and has now been found guilty of criminal trespass. This is a man who bothers some of the administration at the Park’s department, this is also a man who picks up all garbage that he sees on lawns.  This man
might take twenty minutes to remove the refuse from a park as he walks through it, and then he puts it into either a garbage or a recycle container.  This man noticed an open
container (no cover) with an established carcinogen, left
over from a cement compound.  It was only a foot or two away from a sidewalk where children pass everyday going to
a pre-school in Field Park.  This man told workers on the site everyday about the danger of leaving the poison where it was, when he told them in Spanish which is the only language that they understood, they replied that it was not their job.  This went on for days and then the man took  action and stepped on the park property to remove the poisonous material, and was later charged with criminal trespass by persons who
either hated this man to no end or mindless bureaucratics without a shred of compassion.  The situation is made worse
by a Cook County prosecutor who took the case, the  Judge who heard the case, and the people in the Park's Department
who began this task of prosecution.  See what these lovers
of nature did to Field Park's old growth trees to make room for an Olympic sized soccer field next to an Elementary
school with kids in grades K through 6th.  One of the folks
in this video making fun of tree destruction is actually running for re-election.  See her here.
We endorse.
Oak Park Park Commissioner - 4yr.
 
Naomi Hildner  121
Gregg J. Kuenster 124


Village of Oak Park
Oak Park Village President

It Takes A Village
Gary Schwab
Gary Schwab's posted election views, David Pope
failed to provide his to the voters.

Village of Oak Park
Oak Park Village Trustees
Kathryn Jonas
Julie Samuels
John Franklin

Village of Oak Park
Oak Park Village Clerk
Sharon Patchak-Layman

Candidates Running for School Board
District 200
Election in Oak Park and River Forest 
April 7, 2009
Political Action Committee for Education,
The Faculty Senate of Oak Park and River Forest High School has endorsed the candidates below and we concur.
Dietra Millard
Terry Finnegan
Vic Guarino
Amy McCormack
 


Oak Park Public Library Board
Matthew Fruth
Mia Tellez
Bruce Samuels
Cheryl G. Weiss

Township Supervisor Oak Park  
  
F. David Boulanger

Township Clerk Oak Park
Gregory P. White

Township Assessor Oak Park
Ali Elsaffar

Township Trustee 4-Yr Oak Park
Dorothy M. Reid


Oak Park Park Commissioner - 4yr.
 
Naomi Hildner  121
Gregg J. Kuenster 124

SD Bd. Of Ed. Oak Park 97 - 4yr.
James Gates,  Qualified, knowledgable,
great skills, and good intentions.

 




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